[Plugin: Collapsing Categories] Extra at the begining of sub-categories

For some reason, I’m getting a blank

in the sub-category listing. This is my call: collapsCat(‘inExclude=include&inExcludeCats=1&showPosts=0&showTopLevel=0&expandCatPost=0&showPostCount=0&animate=1’);

and this is a snippet that show’s the blank list item…any thoughts?

<li class="collapsing categories"><span onclick="expandCollapse(event, "?","▼", 1, "collapsing categories"); return false" class="collapsing categories collapse" title="click to collapse"><span class="sym">▼</span></span><a title="View all posts filed under Recipe Archive" href="blog/lifestyle/recipes/">Recipe Archive</a>
<ul style="display: block;" id="collapsCat-12:">
<li></li><li class="collapsing categories item"><a title="View all posts filed under Beverages" href="blog/lifestyle/recipes/beverages/">Beverages</a>         </li> <!-- ending subcategory -->